Upper Peninsula of Michigan’s Local Campaign Give906
Grow & Lead invites residents of the U.P. and those who hold the region close to their hearts to support a local organization within the 906 area code during this season of generosity. ‘Nonprofit organizations have shown remarkable resilience and adaptability in recent years, displaying both innovation and tenacity,’ says Grow & Lead CEO Amy Quinn. ‘The Give906 Giving Guide highlights the creativity and dedication of U.P. organizations as they work to meet community needs and make a meaningful impact on lives across the region.’
The guide is coordinated by Grow & Lead: Community and Youth Development as part of the GivingTuesday global generosity movement which inspires people to give back on GivingTuesday, December 3, and throughout the year.
Register Your Organization for the 2024 Giving Guide
When you register your organization’s GivingTuesday campaign to be included in the 2024 Giving Guide, you have the opportunity to showcase your organizations efforts addressing the critical needs of the Upper Peninsula and offer ways your community can support your organization on GivingTuesday and throughout the year.
The Giving Guide is intended to be a one-stop resource, including each participating organization’s name, a description of its GivingTuesday initiative, and a link for donations and information on how to get involved.
Give906 Toolkit
Seeking creative ways to ignite generosity? This section is filled with ideas and examples to help you brainstorm unique strategies for your GivingTuesday/Give906 campaign. Whether you’re a nonprofit, business or individual, explore fresh approaches to inspire excitement and gather support for your cause.
Alger-Marquette Community Action
Marquette County Home Delivered Meal Program
The demand for Home Delivered Meals is greater than ever, and we need your support to keep up.
A $55 sponsorship provides a week of nutritious meals to a senior who is homebound and unable to prepare meals themselves. Your support ensures they receive consistent access to healthy food and a friendly visit, promoting their well-being and independence.
Community Action Alger Marquette delivered over 55,120 meals to homebound seniors in Marquette County last year, and with your help, we can reach even more in need. Join us in making a difference this GivingTuesday—sponsor a senior’s meals and spread the power of giving!
Alger County Communities That Care
Youth Prevention Services
We deliver youth prevention services in Alger County through evidence-based programs and prosocial events.
Alger County Communities That Care collaborates with various partner programs to offer training and services that address risk factors within the community, families, schools, and individuals.
Be sure to follow us on social media! This GivingTuesday, we’ll be going live to share more about our mission and how you can make an impact.
To Donate: Please make check out to Alger County Communities That Care, 413 Maple St, Suite #7, Munising, MI 49862.
Iron County MI 4-H
Positive Youth Development Opportunities
Offering a diverse range of topics and interest areas, 4-H is the largest youth development organization in Michigan. In fact, each year more than 100,000 young people, ages 5-19, explore what interests and excites them as they grow with Michigan 4-H.
In program areas ranging from science and technology to clothing and textiles, and so much more, 4-H provides fun, educational opportunities that empower young people with skills to lead for a lifetime and become the foundation for future success.
To Donate: please make check or money order out to Iron County 4-H Council and mail to Iron County 4-H at 2 South 6th Street Suite 14, Crystal Falls, MI 49920.
Houghton/Keweenaw County 4-H
4-H Program Endowment Match
The Houghton-Keweenaw County 4-H Program Endowment secures the future of positive youth development opportunities for Copper Country youth, ensuring that 4-H will thrive for generations to come.
We’re excited to participate in the Make the Match campaign, which offers a matching pool generously funded by leadership donors. This GivingTuesday, we’ll be sharing this unique matching opportunity on social media, stay tuned!
When donating, please make sure that you specify Houghton/Keweenaw County on the donation form.
Dickinson Iron Community Services Agency
Feed A Senior – Feed A Heart
We will be kicking off our campaign called Feed A Senior – Feed A Heart. It’s an opportunity for anyone to make a donation that will directly benefit homebound seniors by providing them with a hot home-delivered meal.
Donors can choose to fill out a form that we will give to the senior along with the meal to let them know they are remembered and appreciated. The minimum donation is $10 but there is no max. Each $10 received covers 1 meal, including delivery costs, etc.
All donations can be made online.
Women's Center
Year End Ask + Donation Match
The Women’s Center has two generous Donor matches. An Anonymous Donor up to $15,000 and Cross General Construction up to $1,000.
Our goal for Giving Tuesday, Dec 3rd is $32,000. We CAN do this with your help. This will contribute to our overall Year End Ask Campaign which is our biggest fundraising campaign.
This past Fiscal Year 2024 we had 70 Survivors in shelter for an average stay of 60 days, 45 adults & 25 children, 4,227 shelter nights were provided, 228 Domestic Violence Survivors, 106 Sexual Assault Survivors and 5,067 Support Line Calls. The need is there. Thank you for your support now and always.
Please consider donating for Giving Tuesday, December 3rd. Donate here or stop into our office at 1310 S Front Street. Thank YOU.
Partridge Creek Farm
Community Gardens
Partridge Creek Farm (PCF) is looking to our community to help us raise $5,000 this GivingTuesday to purchase our Community Garden site. PCF staff will be at both Velodrome Coffee Cafes (in Marquette and Ishpeming) on the morning of Tuesday, December 3 collecting donations in person.
Follow along on social media and subscribe to our e-newsletter to get weekly updates and learn more about our Community Gardens, our garden members, and why this opportunity is important to the Ishpeming community.
Northern Great Lakes Synod
The Synod Ministry Fund
We seek to encourage new and creative efforts to share the love of God through tangible and impactful ministry efforts. On GivingTuesday 2024, we will be launching a social media campaign to raise $10,000 for our Northern Great Lakes (ELCA) Synod Ministry Fund (SMF).
From monies raised in 2023, this fund has equipped leaders of U.P. Wild Church, supported the Dinner Church of Trinity, Rhinelander, helped meet the expense of a kitchen upgrade for the Feed My Sheep meals of Lutheran Campus Ministry at Michigan Tech through Good Shepherd Lutheran, Houghton, provided the needed finances for the Good Friday Cantata by the ELCA churches of Ishpeming, MI and paid for the registration cost of adult leaders who volunteer with youth to receive training and support.
The GivingTuesday SMF campaign will extend through December 31, 2024 as funds raised in 2024 will be disbursed in 2025. During GivingTuesday, matching funds have been offered to encourage generosity throughout the day.
Watch our Facebook Page @Northern Great Lakes Synod. Whether you give $5 or $500, your gift will assist in continuing to build local ministry efforts and sharing the love of Christ in and through our congregations and communities in the U.P. and Northern Wisconsin.
The Free Store
Serving Marquette County
The Free Store supports families in Marquette County who are experiencing financial hardships. Every December we offer parents of children ages 3 to 18 years the opportunity to select Christmas Stockings or gift bags. We also offer filled Adult Gift Mugs.
We welcome donations of the following:
- Small gift items to fit in children’s stockings such as coloring books, small toys, pencils, crayons.
- Gift items to fit in 5″x7″ gift bags for teens such as lip balm, word search or activity books, colored pencils or pens, Christmas socks, lotion, ear buds.
- Individually wrapped Christmas candy.
- Boxes of packets of hot cocoa.
- Boxes of envelopes of flavored teas.
- Financial donations to support our purchase of these Christmas items are also welcome.
Donations may be dropped off at the Free Store any Tuesday from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM .
Marquette County Habitat for Humanity
Give Hope. Change Lives.
Marquette County Habitat for Humanity helps members of our community in need of decent shelter—whether it’s partnering with families to build decent, affordable homes; helping with critical home repairs, or providing temporary or permanent ramps to those with accessibility issues.
Your financial support and your time will help bring strength, stability, and independence to families in our community in need of a decent place to live. Every donation helps a family help themselves.
Every helping hand makes a difference. Every contribution gives families the opportunity to create a better future. This GivingTuesday give hope. Change lives.
We all deserve a decent place to call home. We all deserve to feel strength and stability day after day. We all deserve to know that we have the power to take care of ourselves and our families; and we all deserve the opportunity to build our own, better futures.
Youth Empowering Services
Y.E.S906
Youth Empowering Services is a non-profit in-school youth mentoring program. Through community partnerships and collaboration, we focus on the social and emotional health of students in grades K-12 in Delta and Menominee counties.
YES is able to thrive thanks to the generosity of the Community Health Impact Grant from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, as well as support from local grants and private donors. In addition to hosting two annual fundraisers—a golf outing and a holiday bash—your contributions on GivingTuesday can help us expand our impact even further. Share the goodness and consider supporting our mission this GivingTuesday.
Marinette County Group Home Association
Biehl Bridges to Recovery
We are a Recovery Community Organization dedicated to supporting individuals affected by substance use disorder and recovery. Through peer coaching and case management—at no cost—we provide compassionate, lived-experience support to help people on their recovery journey.
Our mission is clear: ‘To promote recovery and mental wellness through housing and support services.’
This GivingTuesday, we’re striving to raise $75,000 to continue delivering these life-changing services. Our campaign kicked off on November 1st, and we’ll be sharing powerful stories and updates through social media on Facebook until December 3rd.
Join us in making a difference. Your contribution empowers recovery, strengthens mental wellness, and creates brighter futures. Let’s meet this goal together!
Menominee Area Stagemagic
Save a Menominee Landmark, Blesch Auditorium!
Blesch Auditorium is an asset to the community as the largest audience capacity theater in the Marinette/Menominee counties. Over the past 71 years it has become the premier location for area dance academies and school performances.
As time has passed, it is now in need of extensive updates to secure its future as a viable option for modern productions and accessibility needs. Stagemagic has taken on the risk and responsibility of garnering the support and finances needed to make this important work a reality!
The goal is to affirm its future as a viable performance space for years to come. We would love to see the auditorium become a true performing arts venue and reach its maximum potential for the community!
Munising Bay Trail Network Inc.
Help Us Grow The Trails
During the 2024 #Give906 Campaign, Munising Bay Trail Network (MBTN) is aiming to raise $3,000 to expand the trail network in the Munising area—and we need your support to make it happen!
Thanks to the Munising Visitors Bureau, every donation will go even further with a matching contribution of up to $1,500.
You can donate through MBTN’s Givebutter link below or scan the QR code on Facebook during the campaign, running from November 25 to December 8. Be sure to note your donation is for the 2024 #Give906 MBTN campaign to help us reach our goal.
Together, we can make a big impact on the Munising trails. Thank you for your generosity!
Omega House
Amplification Fund
At Omega House, we provide compassionate end-of-life hospice care where no one is turned away due to financial hardship. This GivingTuesday, as part of the Copper Shore’s #GiveCopperCountry campaign, you can help us continue offering this vital support to those in need.
Every dollar you give will go even further, thanks to the $200,000 Amplification Fund that increases the impact of your donation!
Donating is easy: choose the method that works best for you—online, in person, or by mail. Your generosity ensures we can keep serving our community with dignity and care.
Salvation Army of Marquette County
The Salvation Army Toy Shops
This GivingTuesday, help The Salvation Army of Marquette County bring joy to local families in need. Our goal is to raise $5,000 to support our Christmas Assistance Program, which serves over 700 children in Marquette, Alger, and Baraga counties with essential toys, food, and clothing for the holiday season.
We’ll be going live on social media throughout the day to share stories about our mission and how your donations make a difference. Plus, look for our Christmas kettles at local stores—every dollar raised stays in the community to provide vital support.
Join us in spreading hope and kindness this GivingTuesday. Together, we can make the season brighter for families in our community!
Lake Superior Theatre
Raise the Roof for GivingTuesday
For years, our roof has sheltered unforgettable performances, but now it’s calling for a much-needed upgrade. It’s leaking, creaking, and ready to retire. With your help, we can protect the magic inside for years to come!
Every dollar brings us closer to a roof that keeps our theater thriving and our audience dry. Your support helps us continue to use the entire building year-round, overflowing with creativity, connection, and outstanding ovations.
Donate today and be part of the solution—let’s raise the roof, literally and figuratively!
Mariucci Family Beacon House
Make the 906 Pledge Today!
When you pledge just $9.06 a month for 12 months, you’re not only helping us keep hot meals on the table for families in need at the Mariucci Family Beacon House, but you’ll also receive our exclusive Banana Cream 906 Pledge T-Shirtas a heartfelt thank you!
Your generosity supports our mission to provide a home away from home for families facing medical crises far from their own. Together, we can give comfort, care, and connection during life’s toughest moments.
Marcy's Pantry
Food Fund Drive
Marcy’s Pantry in Curtis, MI, is on a mission to bring Thanksgiving and Christmas cheer to families in need by providing holiday dinner boxes. This year, we’re holding a fund drive to purchase turkeys and other food essentials for our neighbors facing food insecurity.
With your support, we can ensure every family in the Curtis area has a reason to smile around the dinner table this holiday season.
Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital
Hospice Fund
This Giving Tuesday, join Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital is making a meaningful impact through our Hospice Fund. Our dedicated hospice team provides compassionate care that focuses on comfort, dignity, and the unique needs of patients with life-limiting illnesses. With your help, we can enhance the quality of life for patients and their families, offering support and comfort during life’s most tender moments.
Your donations make it possible to provide essential items like incontinence products, safety monitors, and personal care services, as well as create cherished memories through last wishes and special outings. Every dollar you give helps ensure that no one faces the end of life alone. Together, we can honor the strength and dedication of our hospice staff while continuing to support families in our community.
This Giving Tuesday, “Give Comfort, Give Dignity, Give to Hospice.” Click the link to donate today and help us provide the compassionate end-of-life care every individual deserves. Your generosity brings peace, love, and hope to those who need it most. Thank you for being part of this vital mission.
Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter
Support UPAWS
This Giving Tuesday, YOU can be a part of something bigger and save the lives of homeless animals.
At UPAWS, shelter pets are loved and cared for by our dedicated staff and volunteers. Still, even the coziest shelter kennel is no substitute for the comfort of a real home and a loving family. Support UPAWS for Giving Tuesday and help us raise $3,000 by December 3, 2024!
Want to know how your donation can directly support the animals in our care?
$10 –Can cover the cost of a shelter pet’s microchip
$25 – Can provide vaccinations to keep an adoptable pet healthy
$50 – Can you help with spaying/neutering surgery for an adoptable animal
$100 – You can help an animal receive emergency surgery to save its life!
Through YOUR support, you can make an animal’s wishes of a loving home come true! Give today to have your gift count toward our Giving Tuesday goal of $3000, and make a lifesaving difference for UPAWS dogs, cats, and small critters.
Thank you for making a difference!
Upper Peninsula Arts and Culture Alliance
Support Arts, Culture, and Economic Prosperity in the UP
The Upper Peninsula Arts and Culture Alliance will be actively encouraging individual artists, economic leaders, business owners, and arts patrons to become members during the upcoming giving season and on GivingTuesday.
By joining, these community members can support the growth of arts and culture in the region while gaining access to valuable resources and opportunities. This initiative aims to strengthen local creative industries and foster a collaborative network for the continued enrichment of the Upper Peninsula’s vibrant arts scene.
Crystal Falls Contemporary Center
Enrich, Inspire and Create in the Crystal Falls Community
This year, the Contemporary Center’s goal is to raise $500 to help us continue the work we do to enrich, inspire and create in the Crystal Falls Community.
Let’s do this together! Please help spread the word. Have a conversation today about Contemporary Center, share our work on social media, or ask your own friends and family to mark Giving Tuesday on their calendar. We appreciate any level of support that you can give.
Keweenaw Family Resource Center
Amplification Fund
We are participating in the Copper Shores Amplify Project. Every donation given to KFRC through the Copper Shores Community Foundation receives a partitial match from the foundation.
This year funds will provide scholarships, operational costs along with much needed building updates at the Tree House Indoor Playground that serves nearly 1,000 children & their parents each year.
Right Start UP
Restoration of the Hancock Community Hub Theater
We’re thrilled to be part of Copper Shores’ Giving Tuesday campaign! From November 12th through December 3rd, every donation made to Right Start U.P. will be matched—doubling your impact to help us transform the HCH Theater (formerly the Hancock High School Auditorium)
into a vibrant community space!
Our goal is to restore and improve the theater for everyone in the Copper Country. Planned renovations include repairing the stage floor and balcony, upgrading sound and lighting, adding
projector equipment, and updating curtains. When completed, the theater will be available for cultural events, youth programs, theater performances, and so much more. This space is for
YOU, our community!
HCH Theater Sponsorship Levels:
Each sponsorship level builds on the benefits of the previous levels, with additional recognition and rewards as outlined.
- Legacy Sponsor $10k+ Naming recognition for the HCH Theater.
- Community Champion $5k – $9,999 Larger, prominent listing on a plaque in the HCH Theater lobby.
- Heritage Sponsor $2,500 -$4,999 Two complimentary tickets to select community events in the HCH Theater for one year.
- Hub Supporter $1k – $2,499 Special acknowledgment as a major donor at the HCH Theater’s Grand Opening Event.
- Friend of the Auditorium $500 – $999 Recognition on a plaque in the HCH Theater lobby and individual social media spotlight, including an optional donor quote.
- Community Partner $100 – $499 Name included in a digital donor roll displayed at community events, recognition on the Hancock Community Hub website and name featured in a commemorative program upon project completion.
Community members interested in supporting the renovation of the HCH Theater can donate directly to Right Start UP through Copper Shores’ GivingTuesday page below. Navigate to the DONATE ONLINE NOW button, and select Right Start UP as the organization.
Great Lakes Recovery Centers
Donate to GLRC
We are hoping to raise money and acquire donations to cover costs as well as supply gifts to clients over the holiday season at many of our different programs throughout the UP!
This #GivingTuesday donations received will help to ensure our clients have a warm and safe holiday season while in our care.
Little Friends Children’s Center
Donate Today
Our nonprofit childcare center is dedicated to creating joyful and enriching experiences for our littlest learners. With a natural playscape and a sprawling outdoor playground, we provide a space where 3- and 4-year-old children thrive through structured games, activities, and plenty of imaginative play.
To keep this space vibrant, we replace and maintain our outdoor equipment regularly—and we need your help!
Ironwood Theatre
The Curtain Must Go Up!
We are seeking funding in the amount of $22,000 to replace stage drapes that are now more than 40 years old. The project includes: main grand drape, three pairs of legs, rear traveler, three borders (or valences) and a cyclorama. The current drapes are in a very poor state of disrepair including torn legs (or wing drapes), chain pockets that have frayed from years of dragging across the stage floor, leaving the chain weights exposed, and numerous small tears on most drapes.
Over the years, multiple temporary repairs have been made but the fabric is now so compromised that any more attempts to sew and repair the numerous tears will only further weaken the fabric. And gaffer tape, while effective at holding the drapes together, looks awful! All the drapes are showing signs of dry rot – a not uncommon result of the fireproofing treatment to which drapes are subjected.
Three years ago during a rigging safety inspection, it was determined that the dry rot in the cyclorama was so bad that it presented a serious safety hazard. Had the fabric given way, the resulting change in weight on the batten from which it was hung could have caused it and the counterweights to fall suddenly to the floor, presenting a threat of serious injury to performers and stage volunteers. As a safety precaution, the cyclorama was removed.
Supported in part by MACC Capital Improvement grants, in recent years the theatre has made major improvements to our sound and lighting systems. It is time our drapes were replaced, both from a safety perspective and also to continue our ongoing aesthetic enhancements.
Donations from Giving Tuesday will go directly toward the funding of the drapery so upon reopening, we have a pristine, new stage with new draperies to match. We have an online campaign to accept donations.
Thank you for your consideration!
STAR Children's Bereavement Services
Camp STAR
This fundraiser will help cover our largest camp expense – lodging and meals for our Buddies. Our lodging and meals for Buddies are approximately $70 per day, and Buddies are at Camp for 4 days.
By sponsoring a Camp Buddy, you’re investing in the future of both a child and a young adult. Your generosity will help us provide life-changing experiences for both the Camper and the Buddy.
Trillium House
Blood Drive
We are Giving Back to our generous community by hosting a Blood Drive for GivingTuesday!
Call to make an appointment (906) 264-5026 or stop in between 10am and 2pm.
Our Address:
1144 Northland Dr. Marquette, MI
MAPS Education Foundation
Scholarships, Grants & Children’s Savings Accounts
We hope to raise funds for the students and teachers in Marquette & to continue funding our First To Finish Children’s Saving’s Accounts now in its 6th year!
Donations are accepted through online or via check. If donating by check, please make payable to the MAPS Education Foundation and specify the purpose of the donation on the memo line, like naming a scholarship for example.
Mail checks to PO Box 714, Marquette, MI 49855. Thanks!
Partridge Creek Compost
Invest in Soil this GivingTuesday!
Receive your first month of curbside compost collections for free when signing up with us at Velodrome Coffee in either Marquette or Ishpeming on Tuesday December 3rd from 8am-1pm.
Help us meet our goal of 250 curbside customers and start recycling your organic waste today! We’re 68 curbside composters away from hitting our goal!
Start the Cycle
Building Community Through Mountain Biking
Start the Cycle is a 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit organization that was founded in 2016 in Marquette County. Start the Cycle is operated and run by a volunteer board of directors who are committed to quality and inclusive programming. Start the Cycle uses both small and large group processes to provide structure for participants to achieve goals through mountain biking with the intention of also building a sense of belonging and resiliency.
Donations collected as part of the 2024 GivingTuesday event will support community-building and serving students as part of our 6-week 2025 winter fat bike season and 20-week 2025 summer mountain bike season.
The Salvation Army Marinette, WI
Scholarships, Grants & Children’s Savings Accounts
Our goal for #GivingTuesday is $1,000!
Starting on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3, and running through Christmas Eve, the Manske Match will double donations up to $15,000 to the Salvation Army.
Every dollar matched stays local and will support critical programs and services, ensuring that neighbors in need receive assistance with food and other essential resources.
IMPORTANT: Your donation will only be doubled if you type “Manske Match” in the Leave a Comment section at the bottom of the page when donating.
Habitat for Humanity HiawathaLand
Home Repair Programs in Our Community in 2025
On Giving Tuesday, we would like to kick off our $30/30 fundraiser for our 30th Anniversary, which we will be celebrating throughout 2025.
Our hope is to fill our 2025 calendar with a $30 donation, each day of the month, all year long. The funds will help us to continue our mission of making much needed home repairs for hard working families in our community. So please consider a donation of $30 for as many days as you would like in 2025.
Some ideas are, in honor of each of your children or grandchildren on their birthdays. A year-long pledge of $30 each month on any day you like. $30 donations as gifts, in honor of someone who doesn’t want or need a physical gift. A donation in recognition of each of your employees. A donation in memory of a friend or loved one. Or a donation “just because” on any day of our choosing.
We wouldn’t be celebrating this milestone without the past support of people like you. And we look forward to reaching many more milestones in the future with you as our partner!
Donations can be made securely below or by dropping a check in the mail to HFHH at 401 Deer Street in Manistique, MI 49854.
Literacy Legacy Fund of Michigan
Inspire the World Rural Michigan Libraries
Literacy Legacy Fund of Michigan is conducting an extended GivingTuesday generosity project titled, Inspire the World Rural Michigan Libraries.
Through the project, LLF Michigan is distributing copies of the book “Inspire the World: A Kid’s Journey to Making a Difference,” by Sammie Vance, which inspires acts of generosity to select rural Michigan libraries. Several libraries are conducting special generosity projects and/or inviting community members to share information on their own acts of generosity inspired by the book.
The Literacy Legacy Fund of Michigan supports the improvement of a literate Michigan citizenry of all ages through the distribution of charitable funds to enhance literacy-related efforts. If you would like to support LLF Michigan efforts, please visit literacylegacyfund.org and click donate.
Spread Goodness Day
The Goodness Garden: A Story About the Power of Spreading Goodness
Written by retired schoolteacher, Sue Meier and her niece, Megan Calderon, along with the talented Aaron Giannoni as the illustrator, The Goodness Garden is about the founder of Spread Goodness Day and her “special sun-shaped seeds” that make the world a brighter place!
Through this fundraiser, they will be able to provide free books to selected pre-kindergarten through second-grade classrooms throughout Michigan and hopefully beyond! Sue and Megan are passionate about Anna’s story and her purpose for Spread Goodness Day: to make the world a better place.
This book will help share Anna’s vision with the next generation and advocate for children’s literacy. We believe kindness is the single most powerful thing we can teach our children. We are confident this book will be a powerful addition to celebrating kindness, not only on Spread Goodness Day, but EVERY day.
Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy
Storytelling At The DRCF and Beyond
This GivingTuesday, we’re excited to celebrate the incredible work we’ve accomplished together by sharing highlights from our latest projects and heartfelt stories from those who have deep connections to the Upper Peninsula.
Whether it’s by donating, volunteering, sharing our mission with your community, or participating in our events, your support ensures that we can continue protecting and caring for the lands we all cherish.
To say thank you, UPLC is sharing a collection of images from the Dead River Community Forest in a limited edition book to supporters who make a gift of $500 or more this GivingTuesday.
Camp New Day
Donate Today
Camp New Day is a free one-week camp for youth who have or have had a parent to family member that has been incarcerated.
Camp New Day U.P. is 100% funded by donations. Campers and families don’t pay a penny out of pocket to attend.
Besides monetary donations we are also seeking volunteers for our 2025 camp!
The costs of camp:
- $750 Is needed for each camper to attend.
- $4,400 Is the cost of the facility we use for camp.
- $2,500 Is needed to provide campers with home-cooked meals three times a day, plus two snacks a day, for the week.
- $2,000 Is the amount we spend to provide transportation to and from camp for our campers, as well as transportation for various activities during the week.
Donate below or checks can be mailed to:
201 E Ridge St Marquette, MI 49855.
Clear Lake Education Center Stewards Group
Donate Today
Clear Lake Education Center hosts Upper Peninsula students for environmental education programs.
Your generous support will help Clear Lake continue hosting youth and connecting them to the natural world. With limited school budgets, we need to do all we can to help students attend programs at CLEC.
Will you consider contributing today? Your contributions will benefit students directly by helping us keep costs low.
Marquette Maritime Museum
Raise The Roof
Marquette Maritime Museum recently had a new roof installed but we are not done paying for it. The roof cost $155,000 and we have raised 70% of the cost over the past year.
Our mission is to protect, preserve, and interpret the maritime history of Marquette, Lake Superior, and the Great Lakes, and remember the sacrifices of our submarine veterans.
We are an important community asset and we were well overdue for a new roof.
Please help us to raise the remaining 30%.
Caregiver Incentive Project
Donate Today
Help us reach our goal of $1,000 to support Caregivers and Direct Care Workers!
By donating to the CIP, you are allowing us to:
- Provide free training to prospective caregivers.
- Create free resources for people who need care and people who want to give care.
- Award scholarships and grants to students who are committed to working as in-home caregivers.
- Hire experts to sit down with families who need help navigating the caregiving industry.
Right now, there are simply not enough caregivers to meet the growing need, and we will all need care someday!
Your donation will help solve the crisis before it affects your friends and family.
Copper Shores Community Health Foundation
Copper Shores Amplification Fund
All donations made through Copper Shores during GivingTuesday’s donation period will be amplified using the $200,000 amplification fund. Copper Shores Community Health Foundation is amplifying dollar-for-dollar up to $200,000!
An amplification fund is a pool of money set aside for an event or campaign, used to encourage donors by amplifying external donations made to that event or campaign.
GivingTuesday 2023
